By Mike Ebonugwo, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Levinus Nwabughiogu & James Ogunnaike Even with the dreaded coronavirus, COVID-19 lockdown, it is obvious that not even the fear of death by the disease can keep Nigerians locked up or restricted from moving out to pursue their daily bread or engage in other activities of interest. Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial […]

The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned additional 17 residents who flouted the stay-at-home order of the state government. The defendants appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on a charge of gathering and loitering. The government had restricted movement of the residents, ordering them to stay at home except if on essential duty. This […]

By Omeiza Ajayi President Muhammadu Buhari has granted pardon to some inmates of the Custodial Centres of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCoS, Vanguard has learned. The move is to decongest some of the overburdened custodial centres in the wake of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. While it was not clear the category of inmates that would be […]

  By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Organisations, WaterAid Nigeria, ActionAid Nigeria, and Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Wednesday, drew Federal Government’s attention to water supply, availability, and accessibility to contain the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. This was stated by the organizations in different telephone interviews with Vanguard over strategies that could […]

The Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, has distanced itself from a publication authored by a certain OWUN PDP Ode – Itsekiri, wherein it was reported that the Chairman of IRDC, Amb. Austin Oniyesan, in conjunction with Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, donated some amount of money to some persons as palliatives.